aspirer
Example Sentences
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Alas, Zanoni! the aspirer, the dark, bright one!—didst thou think that the bond between the survivor of ages and the daughter of a day could endure?
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
In reading the life of Chatterton, he had not much noted the skepticism, assumed or real of the ill-fated aspirer to earthly immortality.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
Eve the aspirer, give her what she wants, Or wherefore was he born?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
O, then, Were it not better my disgrace were known, Than such a base aspirer fill the throne?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Well, a new aspirer, I suppose, has succeeded, and he is the bone of contention.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
